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...MicroStrategy's stock, which had risen like Icarus--from $7.34 to $333 over the past 12 months--suddenly fell from the sky, losing more than 60% of its value in a single day. More than $11 billion in market value was erased, and the company's brash chairman, Michael Saylor, 35, personally lost $6 billion in paper wealth in less time than it takes to say overvalued dotcom. "There's no doubt this is a bump in the road," Saylor said bravely, "but we signed up to change the world and never believed it was going to be easy...
...year history, Airbus surpassed Boeing in confirmed orders, 476 (worth $30.5 billion) to 391 ($28.3 billion). In the first two months of this year, Airbus had 29 firm orders. But those figures scant Airbus' achievement, since five years ago Boeing boasted four times as many orders as its brash European rival. "I doubt if anyone else in the world could have pulled off what John and his team have done," says an admiring Airbus official...
...Republican side, we urge voters to cast their ballot for McCain. McCain's straight-talking, brash style has earned him the affection of the media, much to the chagrin of his party's establishment. But more importantly, McCain has given the GOP a rare opportunity to reevaluate its current party base. He has courageously condemned the leaders of the religious right and their pernicious influence, particularly in the form of religious litmus tests. Although we are far from comfortable with many McCain's socially conservative positions--such as his stances on abortion and gun control--McCain's commitment to campaign...
...says all the wrong things--then he says all the right things. In some eyes he is merely a brash, Porsche-driving, bungee-jumping populist politician. In others he is a racist and an apologist for Nazism. He is unfairly vilified and misunderstood--or he is just plain bad. What is certain about the zig-zag course of Jorg Haider's right-wing ideology is that last week it brought him and his Freedom Party into a coalition government in Austria--and left the 14 other member countries of the European Union in a state of indignation. As Haider...
...brash new playwright shocked the British theater-going public with pieces that were violent, decadent, farcical and savagely mocking of establishment values. Together with scandalous details (well, by early '60s standards anyway) of his life, such as his murder by his gay lover, Joe Orton's particular brand of theater seemed to be revolutionary and new. In the year 2000, however, the themes of Loot, with its homosexuality, constant digs at the Catholic-Protestant rivalry and even the portrayal of a highly dysfunctional family, no longer seem as radical or as ground-breaking...